OTHER GOVERNMENT SERVICE

Military: Minnesota Adjutant General and Acting Quartermaster General (Appointed by Governor Ramsey);
04/23/1861 to 01/01/1862[Appointed]

Military: 4th Minnesota Regiment Infantry Volunteers (United States Civil War/War of the Rebellion, Army of the Mississippi, Southwest District of Missouri, Colonel; Brigadier General Volunteers, August 4, 1863; Brevet Major General Volunteers, February 10, 1865);
11/05/1861 to 06/01/1866

Military: United States Indian Expeditions, District of the Upper Arkansas (Commander);
06/07/1865 to 05/31/1866

U.S. Executive Branch: United States Indian Peace Commission (Treaties with Cheyennes, Comanches and Other Tribes; Commissioner to Tribes West of the Rocky Mountains);
02/1867 to 1868[Appointed]

FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

Spouse: Catharine Hall (married in March 1857; she died in 1860); Widower; Anna Nixon (remarried in 1865, she died in June 1878); Widower; Rachel Rice (remarried on April 15, 1880)Children: Four children (with Rachel): John B. (son)Family Members Who Have Served in the Minnesota Legislature: John B. Sanborn, Jr.
- Son

GENERAL NOTES

The Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1872 lists New York as his birth state. The others list New Hampshire.

He was born on a farm.

He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in December 1854.

His party affiliation when first elected was provided by Minnesota in Three Centuries.

"I was a Republican member of the House." (Sanborn, Gen. John B. "The Work of the Second Legislature, 1859-60." Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul: the Society, 1905, Vol. 10, Part 2, p. 621)

He fought in numerous battles during the United States Civil War including Iuka, Corinth, Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Vicksburg, Jefferson City, Boonville, Independence, Mine Creek, and Newtonia.

3rd Legislative Session (1861)

Party:RepublicanParty Notes: His party affiliation was determined by A History of the City of Saint Paul and of the County of Ramsey, Minnesota, 1876; it lists him as a member of the Republican Party in the 1860 election.

Committees:

Judiciary

Militia (Chair)

Public Lands

2nd Legislative Session (1859-1860)

Party:RepublicanParty Notes: His party affiliation when first elected was provided by Minnesota in Three Centuries.
"I was a Republican member of the House." (Sanborn, Gen. John B. "The Work of the Second Legislature, 1859-60." Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul: the Society, 1905, Vol. 10, Part 2, p. 621)